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А SUPPLEMENTARY List or CHINESE FLOWERING PLANTS, 1904-1910. By 
STEPHEN TROYTE Duny, B.A., F.L.8., F.H.G.S., sometime Super- 
intendent of the Botanical and F orestry Department, Hongkong, China. 
[Read 2nd February, 1911.] 
Тнк only complete enumeration of the flowering plants of China which has 
yet appeared began to be issued in this Journal in the year 1886 under the 
title of “Ап Enumeration of all the Plants known from China." Its 
author, Mr. Hemsley, pushed forward the work with all possible speed, but 
the vast amount of material, both in the herbarium and in the library, which 
had to be dealt with precluded its termination within the space or the time 
that was originally anticipated. It thus happened that by the time the 
enumeration was completed in 1904 a very large number of species had been 
diseovered in China which were not to be found in the work. А list, there- 
fore, prepared by Miss M. Smith, of the records of Chinese flowering plants, 
published between 1886 and March 1904 and not previously included in the 
“ Enumeration,” was issued with the concluding numbers of that work. The 
present compilation is intended to carry on that list up to the end of 1910, 
and it is planned on similar lines. 
Like Miss Smith's list, it includes references to the places of publication of 
new species, as well as to records of the discovery in China of plants previ- 
ously known only from other countries. With a few exceptions periodicals 
and other works published before March 1904 have not been exhaustively 
consulted, and any citations bearing dates previous to that year are supple- 
mentary to the list. It has been thought useful to add records of some 
600 Chinese species, specimens of which have been determined by com- 
petent botanists, and are preserved in the Kew Herbarium though not 
previously notified in print. This portion of the list could have been very 
largely increased had time and opportunity permitted the consultation of 
other herbaria, especially those containing such large Chinese collections as 
are to be found at the British Museum, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. 
Out of the 3500 citations of. flowering plants, about 2000 are references to 
first publications of species, while some 700 refer to other published additions 
to the flora. It may be said, therefore, that at the present time new species 
are being published at the rate of about 300 a year and new records at about 
100 a year. 
In order to facilitate reference to the list such species as have appeared in 
the * Index Kewensis’ are quoted under the names adopted in that work, 
and if the binomials used in the publications quoted are different they are in 
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